Now, I’ve installed it on my main work laptop and to be honest, I’m still banging my head into the things that are different from the debian and ubuntu world.

Why I went from Ubuntu to Arch Linux

I love learning new things and I love the concept of the package manager fetching sources and a much more agile and progressive package management, where you’re not stuck with a version of $program until the next major release. This maybe is great for production servers, but continuous upstream is really nice.

My main machine for programming is not the most powerful, so I actually benefit from Arch being a leaner distro, even though I’m running it with Gnome 3.

Since my most commonly used applications are browser, mail client, terminal and vim, there’s not a lot that I have to worry about, when switching distributions. Maybe I’ll do some smaller posts in the future that target a couple of the pitfalls when you, like me, want to run Arch and come from the Ubuntu/Debian World.

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